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When you walk into a big project that’s been in progress for awhile (in this case, 350 hours of footage and a previous editor who had been working for a year), the first thing to do is to acquaint yourself with the project. That means checking out all the settings.
In the next series of blog posts, we’re going to write some short articles about editing a giant project with tons of footage in Premiere.
This August, join Ben Long in Chicago for a 3-day photography workshop. And check back at the Juniper Workshops site for more classes with Ben, Sonja and friends on topic ranging from film & video to still photography to fine art. About the workshop: Weekend Photo Composition and Critique Workshop, Read more…
The only bad thing about Los Angeles is that you never need to leave. This month there’s AT&T Shape, the somewhat strangely named art, tech, and entertainment conference at Warner Brothers Studios next week. That combination of topics is right up our alley and there promises to be some interesting Read more…
In the middle of revising The Digital Filmmaking Handbook for the sixth time, it’s impossible not to notice that audio technology hasn’t changed much, where as every couple of years, the video landscape is completely different. There’s a big reason for this. Quite some time ago, 48K PCM audio became Read more…
More from Cine Gear Expo 2017: Panasonic previewed the camera it teased us about last spring at NAB. The Panasonic AU-EVA1 has a super 35mm sensor that records 5.7K video, which means plenty of room to downsize to 4K or less. Like other new cameras released this year (the Canon C200 and the Read more…
Coming later this summer: The Digital Filmmaking Handbook 6th edition Teaching Supplement – a companion booklet featuring exercises and teaching instructions for each chapter, in time for the fall semester. And coming this fall, The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, 6th edition in Spanish, aka Manual de Cine Digital, edition 6.
The big takeaway? Robotics. Everything exciting at Cine Gear Expo is about moving the camera with limited human input: remote controlled gimbels, drones, robotic arms, motorized follow focus mechanisms, sliders with memory, every sort of variation on the steadicam that you can imagine and of course, VR. But when you are looking Read more…
June is a busy month for indie filmmakers in Los Angeles and it’s a great time to come visit because there’s a lot going on: Cine Gear Expo (June 1-4) We like Cine Gear Expo because it’s all the good stuff related to making movies. NAB is cool, but there’s Read more…
One of the most common questions we get is “What is the best editing software” and we always answer “It depends on your project.” But there is one area where Avid MediaComposer beats the competition – well, actually has no competition, and that’s its dialogue searching plugin, ScriptSync. It costs Read more…